Hospitality Industry Information Security: Hotel And Restaurant Guests Face...
“…an unscrupulous restaurant waiter with a pocket skimmer might be able to steal information from hundreds of customers a week, selling that information to those with the means to encode fake credit...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Crime Risks: Alabama Hotel Employees Assist With Arrest...
“…Investigators say when the officers entered the hotel room, there were stolen credit cards, computers, cameras, scanner and other items in plain sight…the group had been making fake identification...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Information Security Risks: Hotel's Guest's Credit Cards...
“…hotels have lots of employees — and many of them have access to the credit card and other personal information of guests. No matter how well trained and supervised, more personnel correlates to...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Information Security Risks: Report Shows "Computer...
“…Only about half of computer users make complex passwords for themselves…In the first six months of 2012 alone, hackers stole over 30 million passwords on hacks of just three online services:...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Legal Risks: "Data Breach Class-Action Lawsuits" Are...
“…Until a couple of years ago, courts would routinely dismiss lawsuits stemming from data breaches, such as the latest in South Carolina, unless the victims could show specific damages. Judges have...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Legal Risks: Hotel “Mobile Applications” Must “Post...
“…In the case of an online service, “conspicuously posting” a privacy policy requires that the policy be “reasonably accessible…for consumers of the online service…the consumer (must be able) to...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Information Security Risks: Hotels, Restaurants And...
“…Almost one-third of all victims had critical systems administered by a third party…Attackers had no trouble exploiting that weakness, with vulnerable remote-access systems accounting for the method...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Data Security Risks: Hotels Are At Significant Risk Of...
“Data security is becoming an issue of significant importance in the hospitality industry…(because of) an increase in hacks and malware attacks, which frequently target hotel systems because they’re a...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Cybercrime Risks: Criminal Hackers Target Hotels Lacking...
“…criminal hackers gravitate to some hotels because, like retail stores and restaurants, hotels do many credit card transactions at a local level, where centralized and highly sophisticated data...
View ArticleHospitality Industry Technology Solutions: Hotels Increase Collection Of...
“…Like other luxury hotels, the Peninsula collects a cache of information about its customers, which is stored in a guest-preference database. But it’s done with only one purpose: to upgrade the...
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